Assisting Components With Better Board Meetings

By: Trevor Mitchell, CAE

Components today are struggling to create better board meetings, and it's our role as component relations professionals to assist them. Based on a recent Component Relations Virtual Roundtable, here are some tips and examples on how to better assist components.

As component relations professionals, one of the biggest challenges we face is assisting our components with running effective board meetings. Component board members typically do not come onto a board having the foundational knowledge or skill set to run this type of meeting. This is a skill set that we, as component relations professionals (CRPs), can help implement to keep a component running effectively.